Decoding the Enochian Secrets: God's Most Holy Book to Mankind as Received by Dr. John Dee from Angelic Messengers

By Inner Traditions/Bear & Company

The ultimate source text of Enochian Magic never before available in book form

• Contains the actual and complete Tables of Enoch given to Dr. John Dee by the Angels

• Explains the difference between Dee’s Tables of Enoch and the apocryphal Book of Enoch

• Includes directions for powerful magic rituals and meditations using these tables

• Presents a reconstruction of the possible 49th missing Table of Enoch

Originally considered a vital part of inspirational literature used by the early church, the Book of Enoch never made it into the cannon or accepted books of the Old Testament because of its strange and mysterious content about Enoch’s experiences in the higher realms, or heavens. The real Book of Enoch, which is a set of almost 100 mystical tables, was given again to humankind in the 1580s, when it was conveyed directly by angels to Dr. John Dee, a 16th-century mathematician, scientist, occultist, and the astrologer of Queen Elizabeth I. Called “the most important book ever given to man by God” by Dee’s angelic messengers, the Book (or Tables) of Enoch is said to hold all the secrets of heaven and earth and the physical and spiritual realms.

Decoding the Enochian Secrets reproduces for the first time ever the exact and complete copy of these tables, which are housed in the British Library. The tables are written in the handwriting of Dr. Dee and Edward Kelly, Dee’s assistant and scryer. The tables also include the phonetic pronunciations, written by Dee in the margins, of all the magical Enochian Calls. Covering the history of this Book or Tables of Enoch, John DeSalvo explains the difference between these tables and the apocryphal Book of Enoch and examines how later magicians such as Aleister Crowley used them. Including Enochian Magic Meditations and rituals, Decoding the Enochian Secrets presents the source text to the most powerful form of magic known to mankind.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
• Release date: Dec 21, 2010
• ISBN: 9781594778568

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DECODING THE

ENOCHIAN

SECRETS

By all accounts, Dr. John Dee played a major role in world history, shaping politics, scientific thought, and occultism for centuries. The highly influential ‘Enochian’ system of magic originated in his ‘mystical experiments,’ of which he kept meticulous records. Yet the centerpiece of his system has never before been published—an enigmatic book that Dee clearly regarded as a monumental gift from God to humanity, communicated through his angels. John DeSalvo has done a wonderful job putting together all the pieces scattered throughout Dee’s manuscripts, including an accessible and systematic introduction. DeSalvo provides valuable suggestions for exploring the book, including meditations and spiritual exercises developed over his many years of investigating Dee’s published and unpublished works. Definitely recommended.

JOSEPH PETERSON, AUTHOR OF JOHN DEE’S FIVE BOOKS OF MYSTERY

I would like to dedicate

this book to the following people:

My parents, John and Nina DeSalvo;

My wife, Valerie, and my children,

Christopher, Stephen, Paul, and Veronica;

And of course to Dr. John Dee,

who made this all possible.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I’m immeasurably indebted to my very close friends Marty and Judy Stuart for their constant help and encouragement and especially to Judy for reading the entire manuscript and making invaluable suggestions.

Joseph Peterson explained to me the organization and makeup of the Tables in the Book of Enoch, especially the first leaf. I’m also very grateful to him for permission to quote from his most excellent and valuable book, John Dee’s Five Books of Mystery.

There are very few people in the world that one is eternally grateful to, but Jon Graham is one of those people in my life. He is responsible for seeing that my most important spiritual books are published.

To my editor Anne Dillion. This is the third book Anne has assisted me with, for which I am thankful.

A very special thanks to Jeanie Levitan, the managing editor for Inner Traditions. No managing editor could take more interest in all the books she publishes and try to make them the best they could be. Her personal editorial assistance made this historic book into something that we are all very proud of.

CONTENTS

PREFACE

  1  ENOCH OF THE BIBLE

  2  THE APOCRYPHAL BOOK OF ENOCH

  3  ENOCH’S VISIONS AND REVELATIONS

  4  DR. JOHN DEE AND THE ANGELS

  5  DR. DEE RECEIVES THE BOOK OF ENOCH

  6  THE DISCOVERY OF THE HIDDEN FORTY-NINTH TABLE OF THE BOOK OF ENOCH

  7  THE MISSING SET OF TABLES IN DEE’S HANDWRITING

  8  SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCES OF THE BOOK OF ENOCH

  9  INSTRUCTIONS FOR MEDITATING USING THE BOOK OF ENOCH

10  REFLECTIONS AND FINAL THOUGHTS

Appendix A

THE NAMES OF THE NINETY-ONE GOVERNORS OF THE THIRTY AETHYRS

Appendix B

THE COMPLETE BOOK OF ENOCH

(As Given to Dr. Dee by the Angels)

FOOTNOTES

ENDNOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

THE FIRST LEAF OF THE BOOK OF ENOCH

From the diaries of Dr. John Dee, written in his own hand

from the British Library MS Sloane 3188

Copyright © The British Library Board. All rights reserved.

The first leaf is comprised of twenty-eight pages of forty-nine paragraphs of Enochian words as well a small table of nine lines of forty-nine letters per line on the twenty-eighth page. The front side of the first leaf is shown in illustrations 1 through 20 on pages 92–112. The back side of the first leaf begins on page 112.

Dee included line numbers in the left margins to indicate each of the forty-nine-words paragraphs. Whenever a line or paragraph at the bottom of a page is carried over to the next page, I have included an a and b designation in the figure caption (e.g. line 5a, 5b, etc.).

Reminder: The first paragraph on the back side of the first leaf was incorrectly labeled 2 and is shown crossed out and correctly labeled 1 (see illustration 21 on page 113). Dee renumbered all the subsequent paragraphs to correctly identify the passages on the back side. So when we review the numbered paragraphs on the back side, we must not reference the numbers crossed out in the squares but the corrected numbers that appear to their left.

Illustration 1. Leaf 1 – front side – line 1

Illustration 2. Leaf 1 – front side – line 2

Illustration 3. Leaf 1 – front side – lines 3, 4, 5a

Illustration 4. Leaf 1 – front side – lines 5b, 6, 7, 8a

Illustration 5. Leaf 1 – front side – lines 8b, 9, 10a

Illustration 6. Leaf 1 – front side – lines 10b, 11, 12

Illustration 7. Leaf 1 – front side – lines 13, 14, 15

Illustration 8. Leaf 1 – front side – lines 16, 17, 18

Illustration 9. Leaf 1 – front side – lines 19, 20, 21a

Illustration 10. Leaf 1 – front side – lines 21b, 22

Illustration 11. Leaf 1 – front side – lines 23, 24, 25, 26

Illustration 12. Leaf 1 – front side – lines 27, 28

Illustration 13. Leaf 1 – front side – lines 29, 30, 31, 32a

Illustration 14. Leaf 1 – front side – lines 32b, 33, 34, 35

Illustration 15. Leaf 1 – front side – lines 36, 37

Illustration 16. Leaf 1 – front side – lines 38, 39, 40, 41

Illustration 17. Leaf 1 – front side – lines 42, 43, 44

Illustration 18. Leaf 1 – front side – lines 45, 46, 47, 48a

Illustration 19. Leaf 1 – front side – line 48b line 48b

Illustration 20. Leaf 1 – front side – line 49a

Illustration 21. Leaf 1 – front side – line 49b and Leaf 1 – back side – lines 1–4a (incorrectly labeled 2–5 in figure)

Illustration 22. Leaf 1 – back side – lines 4b–9 (labeled 5–10 in figure)

Illustration 23. Leaf 1 – back side – lines 10–15 (labeled 11–16 in figure)

Illustration 24. Leaf 1 – back side – lines 16–21a (labeled 17–22 in figure)

Illustration 25. Leaf 1 – back side – lines 21b–26 (labeled 22–27 in figure)

Illustration 26. Leaf 1 – back side – lines 27–32a (labeled 28–33 in figure)

Illustration 27. Leaf 1 – back side – lines 32b–39a (labeled 33–40 in figure)

Illustration 28. Leaf 1 – back side – lines 39b–40 (labeled 40–41 in figure) and the nine lines of the small table (lines 41–49).

THE FORTY-SEVEN TABLES

Leaf 2 (Table 2) to Leaf 48 (Table 48)

As transcribd by Edward Kelley

Ninety-four pages of individual tables from the British Library MS Sloane 3189

Copyright © The British Library Board. All rights reserved.

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